Edit or delete contacts

After you add together contacts to your Android device, you can make changes or delete them.

Contacts saved to your Google Account will sync with Google Contacts and all your Android devices.

Change contact details

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact you want to edit.
  3. At the top right, tap Edit .
  4. If asked, cull the account.
  5. Enter the contact'due south name, electronic mail, and phone number.
    • To enter more than information, tap More fields or the Downwards arrow Down arrow.
  6. To change the photo for a contact, tap the photo, then choose an option.
  7. Tap Save.

Add a contact to your favorites

You can put people you lot contact often at the top of your list.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact yous want to add to your favorites.
  3. At the top, tap Favorite .

Delete contacts

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Select an option.
  3. Your deleted contacts are moved to your Trash.
    • Afterwards thirty days in your Trash, contacts are deleted permanently.
  4. To delete contacts permanently, in your Trash:

Recover deleted contacts

If you deleted a contact in the final 30 days, y'all tin move it out of your Trash.

  • To open Trash, you lot demand to take automatic sync turned on. Acquire how to turn on automatic sync for Google Contacts.
  • Trash is but available when your device is online. If your device is offline or doesn't have a network connectedness, it won't load until you go online.

Important: If the deleted contact wasn't stored in your Google Account, you lot tin can't recover information technology. Learn how to back up your contacts to your Google Account.

Disengage changes to contacts

You can undo whatsoever changes you made to your contacts during the by thirty days, all at in one case.

Important: Contacts deleted permanently from your Trash tin't be recovered.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. At the top correct, tap your Profile picture show and then Contacts app settings.
  3. Under "Edit contacts," tap Undo changes. If asked, cull which Google Account you desire to change.
  4. Cull a fourth dimension to go back to.
  5. Tap Confirm.

Tip: When yous restore contacts to a sure fourth dimension, such as i week ago, whatsoever contacts added after that time won't show up. Learn how to consign your current contacts and add them back later on.

Block contacts

When you cake a number, you won't receive calls or text from that number anymore. If a contact has more than than 1 number, all phone numbers that the person has will be blocked.

Yous also can report them as a spammer.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact you want to block.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Block numbers and then Cake.
    • Block simply i number: Press simply on the number.
    • Spam caller: Bank check the box for "Report equally spam."

To unblock a contact, tap More More and then Unblock numbers and then Unblock.

View blocked numbers

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. At the bottom, tap Fix & manage and then Blocked numbers.

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